[Coco] A New CoCo Forum, just what we need?

Mon Oct 16 18:16:00 EDT 2017

If you are talking about a forum that is geared to a specific subject, such as development, or even better a sub-category of development like BASIC Game Development or Assembly Game Development, then that makes more sense to possibly have a separate forum. However, I don’t see participation in something like that being big enough to sustain a separate forum, w/o it going stale.

The problem I see is this: unless you have a super expert in that small group that can answer most every question that arises (in the chosen category), you will have folks asking a question in that group and then also on the list (and perhaps even again on FB).  Now you have the same question in 2 or 3 different places. 

I liked the idea of a CoCo Q&A on a StackExchange site:  but as you can see, that has not taken off either and is somewhat stale. 

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/coco
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/color-computer

I would love the idea of a development site w/ sample code and snippets from a half-dozen or dozen(s) of developers on a GitHub site but I don’t have the time to invest in getting such a site organized and raising interest in it – plus I don’t see a lot of folks responding to that idea (either way, negatively or positively) as it has been brought up several times now on the list + the FB group. 

James

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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Steve Strowbridge <ogsteviestrow at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 9:34 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] A New CoCo Forum, just what we need?

I'm not here to defend whether a forum is of value to any majority of
people, and if there aren't already other solutions.

Many people have been posting in Facebook recently how hard it is to find a
topic for example, and when it comes to perhaps project based work,
development, etc., it may be of benefit.

Perhaps to better phrase the question, and at the risk of even sounding
rude, but I'm really not interested in people who don't like the idea, or
won't use it.

I'm only interested in knowing if this is going to be a benefit to even a
small part of the coco and retro community.

If there were 4 active users who were really cranking things out, and using
this as a tool to help their project, or share ideas, or get answers to
questions, and it was a benefit for a few people who were active and
supportive of it, then it makes sense to have something like this as a
community resource and as a community service.  I'm lucky that my godaddy
hosting account allows me to have unlimited web sites, storage and
bandwidth, so it's no big deal to host it.

If a few developers of these retro ports used this to bounce ideas and
share information among themselves, and it helped shorten the development
cycle of a future CoCo product, it would be worth it to me.

Feel free to continue to use whatever form of communication that works for
you, but, if this is something that you may benefit from, then join the
forum, and give it a shot, if after like 90 days if it's a ghost town, I'll
reconsider, but the offer is and the forum are open to anyone who wants to
use it and give it a shot.

Steve Strowbridge, aka
The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
ogStevieStrow at gmail.com

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On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:45 PM, EDDY SZCZERBINSKI <dhaulagiri at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello
>
> I may sound out of whack but the next "forum" should be a landline
> telephone BBS.
>
> The REAL THING !  ah ah ah
>
> ... and I am working on it !
>
>
> Eddy Szczerbinski
> DHAULAGIRI at HOTMAIL.COM
> 418 580 8464
>
>
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> De : Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> de la part de Bill Loguidice <
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> Envoyé : lundi 16 octobre 2017 16:29
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> Objet : Re: [Coco] A New CoCo Forum, just what we need?
>
> I have to agree. Forums were much needed and a big deal in the late 1990s
> through the mid-2000s, but it's remarkably difficult to get a new forum
> going these days. Even with a hardcore community like this one - the type
> of audience who would generally understand and appreciate the benefits of a
> good forum - there are remarkably few people who really care enough to put
> in the effort to even sign up, let alone participate. Generally speaking,
> I'd say between VCF, AtariAge, and Facebook - all already previously
> well-established - things are covered. Even something like this mailing
> list is a dying breed, but certainly thriving enough with this particular
> audience (and similar communities) to probably keep running indefinitely.
> With that said, similarly, I'd have my doubts a newly created mailing list
> would get much traction nowadays.
>
> -Bill
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> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Rogelio Perea <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Not me - there are more than enough venues already set for the CoCo, let
> > alone retrocomputing... I am spread out thin as it is: Facebook, Google+,
> > this mailing list, VCF, AtariAge... gasp!.
> >
> > My $0.02 -> work with what we have :-)
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